Patrick J Deneen was born on 1964 and is an American political theorist and author, known for his critical examination of liberalism and its effect on contemporary society.
23 Facts About Patrick Deneen
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Patrick Deneen is a professor of political science at the University of Notre Dame, where his work emphasizes the interrelations of political philosophy, culture, and religion.
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Patrick J Deneen was born on July 21,1964, the son of an insurance executive.
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Patrick Deneen grew up in a Catholic household in Windsor, Connecticut.
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Patrick Deneen was educated at Rutgers University, earning a BA in English literature in 1986.
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Patrick Deneen began his doctoral work in political science at the University of Chicago's Committee on Social Thought, studying there for one year before returning to Rutgers in 1995.
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From 1995 to 1997, Patrick Deneen was a speechwriter and special advisor to Joseph Duffey, the director of the United States Information Agency, appointed by President Clinton.
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Patrick Deneen taught at Princeton University from 1997 to 2005 as an assistant professor.
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Patrick Deneen joined the faculty at Georgetown University in 2005 and was the Tsakopoulos-Kounalakis Associate Professor of Government until 2012.
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Patrick Deneen was founding director of the Tocqueville Forum on the Roots of American Democracy housed in the Government Department at Georgetown University from 2006 to 2012.
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Patrick Deneen joined the faculty at Notre Dame in 2012, and was promoted to full professor in 2018.
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Patrick Deneen is a scholar of democracy, liberalism, classical and modern political thought, and American political thought.
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Patrick Deneen is the author of five monographs, co-editor of three volumes, and author of numerous academic articles.
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Patrick Deneen has written for publications such as First Things, The American Conservative, The New Atlantis, and Front Porch Republic.
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Patrick Deneen was a founding editor of the internet magazine Front Porch Republic, for which he continues to serve as a contributing editor.
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Patrick Deneen has cited a number of influences for his form of Catholic communitarianism, including his doctoral advisor Wilson Carey McWilliams, Wendell Berry, Christopher Lasch, and Alexis de Tocqueville.
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Patrick Deneen was a featured speaker at the 2019 National Conservatism Conference in Washington, DC.
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In September 2019 Patrick Deneen lectured on "The Crisis of Democracy" in the Senate of the Czech Republic as part of an international conference arranged by the voting reform group Institute H21.
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In November 2019, Patrick Deneen met Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban as part of a visit to Budapest to discuss the Hungarian translation of Why Liberalism Failed in the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
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In June 2020, Patrick Deneen responded to charges by libertarians of lack of loyalty to American liberal founding principles.
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In July 2020, Patrick Deneen engaged in two public debates with libertarian conservatives.
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At the website The American Compass, Patrick Deneen debated with former CKE Restaurants CEO Andrew Puzder on the social responsibilities of corporations, in which Patrick Deneen argued for greater civic, consumer, and environmental corporate responsibility.
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Patrick Deneen debated conservative columnist Jonah Goldberg on the consequences of liberalism, arguing that liberalism had increased social isolation, political fragmentation, and economic inequality.